Syllables and Graphs

This project will examine common English syllables and how they lead into one another in a graph. This project will use a list of syllables from this resource (starting on page 34). I plan to find a list of syllabicated, or use a program to turn a list of words in syllables. This reddit post has some solutions for a word hyphenator using a popular algorithm. In the worst case scenario, I would not look at words by their syllables, but rather just search for 3+ length syllables in the words' spellings.

Things to examine using graph of English syllables:

• Longest chain of syllables
• Most important syllable in English language (PageRank Algorithm)
• A possible indicator of the difficulty of learning the English language (Average path length and the diameter of a graph). The average path and diameter might suggest something about the distribution of syllables among all words.